Goodman said Tuesday that anything might have happened given another week of dance practice.

Metta's exit allowed TV legal analyst Nancy Grace and Rob Kardashian to survive. Each had also scored in the bottom tier of season 13 contestants and not known whether they would advance until the final moments of ABC's broadcast.

Leaderboard leaders Chynna Phillips and J.R. Martinez, the wounded Iraq war vet turned actor, got the green light to move on without incident on Tuesday.